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Comfortable hotel furniture can compensate for lack of space

If you have fairly compact rooms, your choice of hotel furniture is even more important than if you have plenty of space to spare.

Choosing the right items of hotel furniture can allow you to cater for your guests' needs, without leaving the room cluttered or difficult to move around - and a new innovation from Britain's biggest hotel brand is a shining example of how to do this.

Whitbread, who own Premier Inn, are beginning full-scale construction of their new 'hub by Premier Inn' concept, which has been on a limited trial at Premier Inn Kings Cross for the past year.

The concept is described as offering "good value for money and appeal to customers who value price, location and design over space", and is intended particularly for use in city centres where space is at a premium.

Each room measures just 11.4 sq m, with features including a desk that folds out from the bed, and under-bed storage for bulky items like luggage.

In many ways, these are the kinds of space-saving measures many people put to good use in their own homes, but are instead being used here to fit the necessary hotel furniture into a very compact area.

The financials make for compelling reading: Whitbread plan to open 1,000 rooms in the next three years, rising to 6,000 'hub' rooms by 2018 with a pipeline of 40 hotels in total; significantly, the construction and operating costs of the rooms are predicted to be 25% lower than for a conventional hotel.

While you might not choose to go so far as to deliberately build a hotel with unusually small rooms, it is clear that there is potential within the market for compact rooms to cater for guests' needs.

It's not just about the hotel furniture you place in guests' rooms, either; when your rooms are small, it may be more likely that your guests will choose to socialise and relax in your larger, communal rooms or reception area.

As such, remember to place some comfortable sofas or armchairs in these areas, or to equip your bar area with sufficient seating to cope with peak levels of demand.